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satisfy
verb as in please, content
Strongest matches
amuse, appease, assuage, delight, elate, entertain, fascinate, flatter, gratify, mollify, placate
Strong matches
animate, befriend, captivate, capture, cheer, cloy, comfort, conciliate, enliven, enthrall, exhilarate, fill, gladden, glut, gorge, humor, indulge, pacify, propitiate, quench, rejoice, sate, satiate, score, sell, slake, suit, surfeit
Weak matches
brighten up, do the trick, fill the bill, get by, hit the spot, make merry, make the grade, sell on
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Example Sentences
For those with a predilection for immaculately fine and delicate paintings by Botticelli, his Madonna of the Book will satisfy.
Smith, the current police chief, called Lee a “scapegoat” who was “thrown to the wolves” to satisfy political critics.
“Our criminal justice system requires that she be beaten enough to satisfy the system,” Gruelle says in Private Violence.
Typically, Cumming says, the boys would be set an impossible task, or one whose completion would never satisfy their father.
The West trades on its iconography, and many writers satisfy the hunger for that epic, legendary place.
Of course I had to satisfy the ruffian's insolent demands, but I did so under protest.
But I reasoned with myself and managed to satisfy myself that he must have turned the chair round with his foot.
It loses all its value just as soon as there is enough of it to satisfy, and over-satisfy the wants of humanity.
It means enough not to satisfy them, and to leave the selling price of the things made at the point of profit.
But let it be noted that the "enough" here in question does not mean enough to satisfy human wants.
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On this page you'll find 245 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to satisfy, such as: amuse, appease, assuage, delight, elate, and entertain.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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